Anthropology of Disability: Problems and Goals
[Antropologiia invalidnosti: problemy i zadachi]
Type of publication: Editorial Introduction
Submitted: 21.03.2017
Accepted: 21.11.2017
About author(s)
Elena E. Nosenko-Stein | http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9952-8582 | nosenko1@gmail.com | Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (12 Rozhdestvenka St., Moscow, 107031, Russia)
Keywords
disability, impairments, disability studies, disabled people, anthropology of disability
Abstract
The article introduces the special theme of the journal’s issue on “Disability in the Russian Culture”. The guest editor, E. Nosenko-Stein, briefly outlines the main terms and approaches employed in disability studies, including those used in ethnic studies, and stresses the necessity of promoting research on disability within the framework of ethnology and social/cultural anthropology. The special section of the issue presents contributions by E. Nosenko-Stein, V. Dobrovolskaya, A. Kurlenkova, L. Torlopova, and A. Frolova.
Funding Information
This research was supported by the following institutions and grants:
Russian Foundation for Humanities, https://doi.org/10.13039/100009094 [grant 16-01-00145]
Citation
Nosenko-Stein, E.E. 2018. Antropologiia invalidnosti: problemy i zadachi [Anthropology of Disability: Problems and Goals]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 1: 5-11. https://doi.org/10.7868/S0869541518010013
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